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New – three databases giving access to over 135,000 music tracks

African American Song This database documents the history of African American music in the form of an online listening service. Contains 50,000 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. http://surrey4.classical.com/   Classical Music Library A database of classical recordings offering over 50,000 tracks from more than 30 different labels. […]


New – The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 now available online

The complete digital edition of The Times (London) is now available (click here). The entire newspaper is captured, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photographs divided into categories to faciitate searching. Users can use keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or an entire page. Access is available […]


New – access to Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers online

 Staff and students now have access to this full text database, which includes documentation generated by the British Parliament and its day-to-day workings, 1800-1899. These documents include Bills, Reports of Committees and Commissioners, Command Papers and Accounts. The papers provide a rich record of the history and society of Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century. […]


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